Life, Fannishness, and Thespic Infatuation

Two months late, but we've got some very pretty Winter Wonderland snow going today. Won't be going anywhere, as the cars are snowed in, but that's okay.

( So there's this thing . . .  )

Groundhog's Day.

February 2.

The crocuses are blooming.

What's up with that?

Snowflakes and vanilla.

This evening, after a whole Christmas season without a flake of snow, we now have a nice skiff on the ground. Big, pretty snowflakes earlier, and it makes things look so much prettier this time of year.

And I clap and giggle with glee now that I have a whole bottle of Mexican vanilla in my possession. Whee!!!

I'd never heard of thunder snow until last year. I'd never seen it until tonight.

We're getting a heavy, wet snow right now, and driving home from the grocery, the sky lit up in a flash of blue. One of the freakiest things I've ever seen. I asked Geo if it was lightening, and he said yes, the forecast said we were going to get some thunder snow tonight.

Zoinks!

Today is December 21, the winter solstice, the first day of winter, the shortest day of the year. Which means tomorrow the days are going to start getting longer.

But more importantly, it means that one month from today (January 21), new eps of SPN will be back in rotation. \o/

I'm rather sore today. But it's lessening to an "oh, I got a good workout yesterday" ache rather than an "ow I can't move please don't ask me to move what do you mean I have to get up and do chores" type of thing. Lower back, obliques, and arms. I'll be moving a little slower than usual today.

Last month, luvwinchesters introduced me to Sandy Carlson's blog, Á la Sandy. If you're a foodie of any sort, check it out. She's got some really cool recipes, some of which are easy enough to satisfy me. (I've often said of myself that if you are what you eat, then I'm fast, cheap, and easy.) However, I'm fast coming to the conclusion that I need a stand mixer. It's a little late to put that on my Christmas list, so perhaps it shall go onto my birthday list. I'm partial to KitchenAid for no other reason than one of their flagship stores is in Greenville, OH. Also, I think the one my mom has is a KitchenAid, from when I was a wee squeaker.

I'll probably be back later with some sort of approaching-the-year-end round-up. Looking at the goals I set for myself, and deciding what sort of goals I want to set for 2010.

I can't believe Christmas is Friday. I've still got shopping to do.

The snow continues to come down. I've squeed with glee more than once this morning.

( Why, yes. We do live in Narnia. Why do you ask? )

Yesterday was a rather quiet day.

We got freezing rain and snow, which is relatively traditional for my birthday, even if we don't get it any other day of the year. My boss called in the morning, asking if I was considering coming in to work. I told her, yes, that I was just running over in my mind how much extra time I'd need to scrape my car and warm it up and drive carefully in to work. She told me to stay home, to not even consider going in to work. Okay, then.

My Facebook was busy with b-day wishes from family and friends over there, which brightened my morning.

I got some wonderful fun pressies from izhilzha and kalquessa and sarcasticval, namely laughter, which I really needed at the point in time when said pressies were posted. Because spending one of your "milestone" birthdays by yourself can sort of get you to wondering if you've made any sort of difference in the world. So thank you, ladies, for that.

Geo sent me a lovely bouquet of flowers.

We were going to go out to one of the nice restaurants for dinner, but he was wiped out from a class he took, and we figured the restaurants would probably be closed due to the weather anyway. (Honestly, it's like these folks don't know what to do with winter weather.)

So we had pizza and key lime cake and tried to watch a movie, but my eyes just wouldn't stay open. I was in bed by 9:30.

I also got some other very nice b-day wishes throughout the evening from other f-listies like kerravonsen, yasminke, just_ruth, and july_july_july. And a phone call from Cheese Elf. Cheesy, I'm so fondue you. :-)

In more disappointing news, it looks like iTunes won't be getting SPN eps any time soon. From what little I can get out of the customer service people, it's because the network hasn't released the ep to iTunes yet. I also noticed that iTunes has raised the price of eps from $1.99 to $2.99. I'm wondering if they did that without the network's okay, and there's some sort of issue there that has to be ironed out before the CW will release the ep. Because when I checked on Amazon (which I can't download from, though I could watch it streaming if I wanted to), it's available there, for $1.99.

*sigh* I really do feel like I'm missing half the ep when I can't watch in widescreen.